If you live in Austin, Texas, you’ll be thrilled to know that one awesome show is headed your way. Shirts For A Cure will be putting on a showcase at SXSW this year, which will feature Paint It Black, Fake Problems, BANE, Dave Hause, Riverboat Gamblers, and Title Fight. The show will be held at Red 7 on Friday, March 18th. The doors will open at noon.

This is the sixth year that Shirts For A Cure, a nonprofit organization that raises the social concerns of punk bands and awareness for breast cancer, will be hosting a showcase at SXSW. Past showcases have included the likes of Hot Water Music, The Boucing Souls and 7 Seconds, among others.

Due to the awesomeness of the showcase’s lineup, be sure to get there early, as entrance is limited.

As if Thrice didn’t have it hard enough last year with family emergencies, now it turns out their storage unit was robbed a few months ago and they lost a bunch of equipment.

They got some of their stuff back after the culprits got caught, but they are still missing a lot of things, including a black ‘85 Les Paul Custom, black Les Paul Custom Lite, Rhodes Mark V keyboard and acrylic C&C Drum kit. Though it’s a longshot, the band asks that if anyone sees their equipment for sale to contact their management (thricebay@gmail.com), not the seller.

The band is currently in the studio, working on an album to come out some time this year. Thrice’s latest record, Beggars, was released in 2009 on Vagrant Records.

Cover songs are like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.  We here at Dying Scene love hearing punk bands do their own take on other band’s songs.  Sometimes they pull off amazing interpretations of old classics, sometimes they’re not much more than humble tributes to a fellow artist, and other times they’re just downright laughable renditions of otherwise great songs.  Good or bad.  Intriguing or mundane.  We’ll let you be the judge.

Yes, we posted one already today. So consider this a bonus. Usually what we give you is a punk band taking on an out-of genre song, but this one’s the other way around. Here’s a cover done by indie rock band The National; it’s their take on The Clash’s “Clampdown,” off London Calling.

Check it out and pass judgment here.

[Read more…]

Louisville music festival Krazy Fest has announced even more bands to its increasingly awesome roster.

Today on Twitter they confirmed 7 Seconds, Touche Amore, Hot Rod Circuit, Straight A’s, Frontier(s), Moving Mountains, Lions Lions, Reading Group, Coalesce, The Bled, This is Hell and an acoustic solo set from Kevin Seconds. This is on top of the bands they announced last weekend.

You can check out the full line-up and schedule here. The concert takes place May 20-22 at Expo 5 in Louisville.

Pop-punkers The Wonder Years finished tracking their upcoming album recently. Vocalist Dan “Soupy” Campbell sat down to talk about their recording process, working with their producers, hundreds of vocal takes and writing a pop-punk albums. Oh, and cheap socks and nuclear weapons.

The band still hasn’t announced a title or exact release date for the new record, though Soupy said he has his fingers crossed for June. Of course, as soon as we hear anything about that we’ll let you know. The Wonder Years’ last release was their 2010 No Sleep album, The Upsides.

Check out the interview here.

[Read more…]

Boston’s A Loss For Words just announced they signed to Velocity/Rise Records.

The band will head into the studio in May to record a new album, which will come out in September, they said in a video. We’ll keep you posted on further details about the album as they surface.

See their video announcement here.

Their debut album, Motown Classics, came out last year on Paper + Plastick Records.

[Read more…]

Ever wondered what each song on Jimmy Eat World‘s Invented was about?

Well, if you have, the band offered up a short explanation of every track. For example, it sounds like “Evidence” is basically a musical Jennifer Aniston-Vince Vaughn movie, because the band says it’s about “going through a break up with someone you live with.” Check out the rest of the stories here.

Invented was released September 28, 2010 on Interscope Records.

Mayday Parade‘s upcoming EP, Valdosta, is coming out March 8. The release will have two brand new songs as well as alternative versions of previously released tracks.

They unveiled the album art last week, which you can see over on the left. Click here to see the tracks and a bigger version of the cover.

The band is also currently working on new material for full-length album with a summer 2011 release date. Stay posted for more news about that record.

[Read more…]

Screeching Weasel has just released the first track from their upcoming album, First World Manifesto. “Beginningless Vacation” is available for stream or download here.

First World Manifesto is due out March 15th on Fat Wreck Chords. It’ll be the band’s first new release in 11 years. Album art is over on the left and they released the track list a couple of weeks ago.

First Billie Joe Armstrong joined the cast of his own musical, then Melissa Etheridge, now Davey Havok of AFI has signed on for American Idiot.

After Armstrong’s 50-show stint ends on February 27 he’ll pass the role of St. Jimmy on to Havok, who will play the bad guy part for two weeks starting March 1.

American Idol‘s Justin Guarini will join the cast at the same time as Havok, playing the role of Will.